Thagaste

Thagaste was a Roman-Berber city in present-day , now called . The town was the birthplace of Saint Augustine.
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  • Type: Locality with 153,000 residents
  • Description: ancient city
  • Also known as: Souk Ahras”, “Soukaras”, and “Suk Aras

Places of Interest

Highlights include Souk Ahras.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Thagaste

Latitude
36.2864° or 36° 17′ 11″ north
Longitude
7.9511° or 7° 57′ 4″ east
Population
153,000
Elevation
697 metres (2,287 feet)
IATA airport code
QSK
United Nations Location Code
DZ QSK
Open location code
8F897XP2+HC
Geo­Names ID
2479215
Wiki­data ID
Q1324444
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Thagaste” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: سوق أهراس
  • Arabic: طاغاست
  • Arabic: طاغست
  • Armenian: Թագաստե
  • Belarusian: Тагастэ
  • Bulgarian: Тагасте
  • Catalan: Tagaste
  • Chinese: 塔加斯特城
  • Chinese: 苏格艾赫拉斯
  • Czech: Tagaste
  • Danish: Tagaste
  • Dutch: Thagaste
  • French: Tagaste
  • French: Thagaste
  • Georgian: ტოგასტა
  • German: Souq Ahras
  • Greek: Θαγάστη
  • Hausa: Thagaste
  • Hebrew: תאגסטה
  • Hungarian: Szúk Ahrász
  • Hungarian: Tagaste
  • Irish: Thagaste
  • Italian: Tagaste
  • Italian: Thagaste
  • Kabyle: Suq Ahras
  • Korean: 수크아라스
  • Korean: 타가스테
  • Latin: Tagaste
  • Lithuanian: Suk Ahrasas
  • Low German: Souq Ahras
  • Persian: سوق اهراس، الجزایر
  • Polish: Suk Ahras
  • Polish: Tagasta
  • Polish: Tagaste
  • Portuguese: Tagaste
  • Romanian: Thagaste
  • Russian: Сук-Ахрас
  • Russian: Тагаст
  • Russian: Тагасте
  • Rusyn: Тагаст
  • Slovenian: Tagaste
  • Spanish: Tagaste
  • Ukrainian: Сук-Ахрас
  • Urdu: تاگست
  • Urdu: سوق اہراس
  • Welsh: Souk-Ahras
  • Western Panjabi: سوق اہراس

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